The photographic exhibition A través de la ventana (Through the window), on display in the Cuban capital, characterizes the creative universe of famous Swiss artist Marcel Dousse, whose visual discourse focuses on social dynamics in other parts of the world. The series, exhibited in Havana for the first time, is a photographic test that gathers small fragments of cities the artist photographed while touring the world. Going from street creativity to landscapes created in popular neighborhoods as a result of the passing of time, the artist considers the city a huge gallery, which the inhabitants fill in with graffiti, advertisements and posters, said the organizers of the exhibit.

Described as a permanent life traveler, a philanthropist whose dreams and work are aimed at seeing a better world, Dousse carries his camera during his journeys and has turned this art into a shelter, while being a mean to access and understand complex realities.

The variety of colors and shapes present in the architectonic elements characterizes the work of this Swiss artist, who is interested in photographing the reality of the different ethnic groups. Influenced somehow by his Lausanne fellow countrymen, renowned photographer Luc Chessex – who settled in Cuba from 1961 to 1974 and was his longtime mentor – Dousse’s black and white works recall that renewed way of conceiving urban documental photography, where immediate response to explore the environment is essentially the result of a keen eye.

Dousse previously exhibited in Cuba a work inspired by new scenarios and entitled El otro lado de la vuelta (The other side of the turn), at Fototeca de Cuba. The present work, curated by List Gallery’s specialists Lisandra Aguilar and Lisset Alonso, is on display at the Havana Level gallery.